exoplanets Tag Posts Index

Research Suggests: Earth Is Largely Hidden from Alien Detection

Alien vistas The universe as seen by Gaia. (Courtesy: ESA/Gaia/DPAC; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO/A. Moitinho) via physics world Research indicates that Earth may be exceptionally

Earth: A Well-Hidden Planet for Extraterrestrial Observers

DSCOVR’s full-disk view of Earth, reduced to low resolution to show how distant aliens might see our planet. (Courtesy: S. R. Kane / arXiv:1511.03779) via Physics

Too deep-space minded to be of any planetary use?

When I was younger I often heard the phrase "Too heavenly minded to be of any earthly good" - anyone else remember that? Recently I've been seeing a lot

Seeding the Neighbourhood - K2-18b & Chill

I am always fascinated by new discoveries, as are we all, and I am constantly reminded that I know nothing, I have been taking some time to do some revision of the

High probability of extraterrestrial life on K2-18b? / Hohe Wahrscheinlichkeit außerirdischen Lebens auf K2-18b?

English K2-18b is an exoplanet, discovered in 2015, orbiting a "red dwarf" star, located 124 light-years (approximately 1.2⋅1015 kilometers) from Earth. Its radius

Orbital Mechanics, Semaphore & Techno Signatures

I apologize in advance, for how strange, this is going to read, I suppose I have to do it this way, and now theirs clouds great, and the sun will be up shortly,

The Things We've Learned... and the Myriad Things Yet to Come!

I was looking through a box of old keepsakes from the house I grew up in, including a few things my mother had saved from my room. One of those things was a map

The new worlds, exoplanets

The new worlds, exoplanets. Souce A team of astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer and TESS space observatories and other ground-based observatories has discovered

An exoplanet with eternal nights and eternal days

An exoplanet with eternal nights and eternal days. Image created by me in playgroundai On February 3, a team led by astronomer Diana Kosa Kobotsky, from the Max

Would you like to discover Worlds

Would you like to discover Worlds Image created by me in playgroundai In the future, one of the things for which our time will be remembered will be for being the

Name an exoplanet discovered by the James Webb.

Name an exoplanet discovered by the James Webb. Souce You cannot buy an exoplanet as some claim, that has no scientific or legal validity, naming one is also very

The Universe of Speculation: What if Humans Are AVERAGE, Rather Than UNIQUE?

It seems to be wired into the human brain to think that we are "special;" that we are unique and different, as a species. An alien lifeform? We tend to

301 New Exoplanets Found Using Deep Learning/301 nuevos exoplanetas encontrados mediante aprendizaje profundo

Source Currently more than 4,500 exoplanets have been discovered, most of them detected by the Kepler satellite using the transit method, this method consists of

New method to find exoplanets.

New method to find exoplanets. Souce The new method developed considers the solar wind of a star to collide with the magnetic field of a planet producing powerful

New type of exoplanet with "promising possibilities" to host life/Nuevo tipo de exoplaneta con "posibilidades prometedoras" de albergar vida

Source An exoplanet can be defined as a planet that orbits a star other than our Sun, so it is not located in our solar system, if only for statistics, all experts

Dancing with the stars (EN - CAST) Danzando con las estrellas

Dancing with the stars (EN - CAST) Danzando con las estrellas Souce A team of astronomers has discovered what they themselves have described as a "puzzling system

Science within everyone's reach (EN - CAST) La ciencia al alcance de todos

Science within everyone's reach (EN - CAST) La ciencia al alcance de todos Souce Discovering new worlds is no longer a matter only of wise men buried in gigantic

Exoplanet Exploration: My new series of Posts!

I was checking about exoplanets as i am really fond of this matter. I just can't hide my curiosity about what exists out there. There are so many interesting things

New Study Estimates that there are about Six Billion Earth-like Planets in the Milky Way Galaxy

Astronomers at the University of British Columbia that there may be as plenty as one Earth-like planet per five Sun-like stars in the Milky Way Galaxy by the use

Discoveries Beyond a Solar System

It has long been known that there is much more outside of our own Solar System. Another day of probing the vast galaxy brings new and exciting discoveries with keen